Hurricane Sandy hitting New York

Hurricane Sandy sent water rushing into New York City streets and left a large swath of lower Manhattan without power. The storm was one of the largest to hit the region in decades and caused massive problems for millions of people. See pictures from the storm’s effects in New York.

Pictured: People stopped along the waterfront to look at the Brooklyn Bridge and a darkened Manhattan skyline on Oct. 30.
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Thousands of gallons of water were pumped from the lower floors of a building on Wall Street on Oct. 31 as New York City began to recover from the effects of Hurricane Sandy.
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Richard Drew/AP

Early morning commuters croseds New York's Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 31. Morning rush-hour traffic appeared thicker than on an ordinary day as people returned to work in a New York without functioning subways. Cars were bumper-to-bumper on several major highways.
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A police car patroled in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 31 before it reopened for trading for the first time following a two-day shutdown due to superstorm Sandy. Stock futures were rising ahead of the opening bell.
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People boarded a bus, as partial bus service was restored on Oct. 30. Mass transit, including buses, wer suspended during Sandy.
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Sean Sweeney/AP

A 168-foot water tanker, the John B. Caddell, sat on the shore where it ran aground on Front Street in the Stapleton neighborhood of New York's Staten Island as a result of superstorm Sandy on Oct. 30.
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Rod Zindani surveyed the damage to his Best Of New York Food Deli in the aftermath of Sandy on Oct. 30.
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A boat rested on the tracks at Metro-North's Ossining Station in Ossining, N.Y.
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Brendan McDermid/REUTERS

A Con Edison truck drove through flood waters in New York's lower east side on October 30.
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Carlo Allegri/REUTERS

Workers cleaned up shards of glass blown out by Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30.
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TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

A construction crane dangled atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise tower in midtown Manhattan on Oct. 30 after high winds from Sandy caused it to collapse.
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MTA/Reuters

A train at the Metro-North Railroad's Croton-Harmon station was immersed in water on Oct. 30.
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John Minchillo/AP

A pedestrian passed a fallen tree on East 7th Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side neighborhood on Oct. 30.
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A woman rode her bicycle through a flooded street in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn after Sandy caused extensive damage in the area on Oct. 30.
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Cars floated in a flooded subterranean basement following Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 30 in the Financial District of New York. The storm caused massive flooding accross much of the Atlantic seaboard.
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A fire caused major damage to the Breezy Point section of New York’s Queens borough on Oct. 29. More than 190 firefighters were called to contain the six-alarm blaze fire, and were still putting out some pockets of fire on Oct. 30.
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People walked on the Brooklyn Bridge which remained closed to traffic after the city awakened to the affects of Sandy on Oct. 30.
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A view of a statue of George Washington on Tuesday on Wall Street after Hurricane Sandy left most of lower Manhattan without power.
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Justin Lane/EPA

A firetruck was seen on Tuesday in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
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A view of a darkened Pearl Street on Tuesday looking north after Sandy left most of lower Manhattan without power.
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Floodwaters from Sandy entered the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel (formerly the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel), which closed Monday. New York City shut its airports, subways, schools, stock exchanges, Broadway theaters, and closed several bridges and tunnels Monday as the weather worsened.
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The normally glittering Broadway was pitch black except for a few police car lights .
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey/AP

In this photo provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a surveillance camera captured the PATH station in Hoboken, N.J., as it is flooded shortly before 9:30 p.m.on Monday.
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Frank Franklin II/AP

The New York skyline, as seen from the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, was dark Monday.
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Medical workers assisted a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University's Tisch Hospital. The New York City hospital movied out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out.
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Streets were flooded under the Manhattan Bridge in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Richard Drew/AP

A woman used her mobile phone to photograph New York Harbor at Battery Park, at the southern tip of Manhattan, on Oct. 29. Defiant New Yorkers jogged, pushed strollers and took snapshots of churning New York Harbor on Oct. 29., trying to salvage normal routines in a city with no trains or schools as a mammoth storm approached.
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Bebeto Matthews/AP

A car was submerged in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, as the East River overflowed on Oct. 29.
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The Empire State Building, right, glows over a darkened neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 in New York. Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people.(AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
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Adrees Latif/REUTERS

A woman in a bathrobe jumped into a puddle of rain water while visiting Times Square on Monday.
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